Ceres 2525 is a spiritual sci-fi action novel about 25 year old veteran Ceres Tauri. The playboy superstar of the zero-gravity league, Ceres searches for his parents, long held captive among the Galactic's 500 worlds. When he too is kidnapped by the pirate fleet, forced to duel to save a beautiful slave girl with a powerful secret, he determines to fight his way to the top of the pirate ranks. Can he kill his own father to rescue his mother? Who can save his soul, even from himself? Let me ask you: Do you read fiction? Why? You want to be teleported away from your normal real life, transported into an exotic fantasy world, having exciting adventures with your most interesting new friends you love and enemies you love to hate, right? What if we could pop up to a spacecraft right now? Where would you want to go? The Moon? Saturn? The asteroids? Who's up for that adventure right now? Raise your hand Let's set course and fly out to the asteroid belt. Do you know the name of the largest asteroid up there? Ceres. (sounds like "series," as in "world series.") Let's imagine that's your home. You were born there, so of course, your mom named you after home: Ceres. A while back, your mom was kidnapped. They almost got you too, but you got away. Since then, your family put you up in a military school, not the brick institutional kind, though, the remote martial arts do'jo kind Cool, huh? Like living in a top martial arts movie. Then, that place was attacked. They were trying to kidnap you again. Sheesh, being a member of the wealthiest family in the galaxy makes you such a target, huh? Oh, I forgot to mention... Asteroid Ceres is worth between 120 and 150 Trillion Dollars. So yeah, your family is the wealthiest in the galaxy. Lucky you But unlucky, people do try to kidnap you all the time... like your mom. So, you grow up in space, tramp around on your uncle's starship, you go to college, military academy... learn to pilot star ships, how to design and build them too. Good in sports- like "the Athlete of the Millenium" of zero-gravity basketball good. Spend a few years in military service aboard starships. A few adventures, a few buddies, and a few ladies.... Now that's done, you are free to start your adult career, start your life. You can be and do anything you imagine, desire, and work hard towards achieving. But, you are stuck at one point in your life: still no mom. What? Nothing? Still no clues? What are you going to do? Better question: You're trained like a martial arts star, equipped like a special agent, tall, rugged, and handsome like an iconic cowboy... What do you think THAT guy's gonna do? Go find mom, right? No question Here you go, it's easy in 2525. Take your boarding pass to the spaceport. Telepod pops you up to the space station, float into your luxury starship and cruise away from Earth. Set course for the wormhole station, and through there, anywhere. Let's journey through a wormhole to a star on the outer rim of the galaxy, out there beyond the Carina Arm, to the Periphery of the Milky Way. You are going to the luxury penthouse suite of a city on a "Super-Earth" planet. Remember back on Earth, the Burj Khalifa hyper tower in Dubai, at 2700 feet tall it's a half a mile up, almost one kilometer This is dwarfed by, The Arcology, an entire self-contained city for one million people, a stretched glass pyramid 12 kilometers tall. And you are standing there at 10 km high in a penthouse suite. From up here you can see the curvature of the world You look out the crysteel window and see four more Arcology towers arranged around the city center. Oh, and the pirates coming. Sorry, I forgot to mention them again, didn't I?